Links on Mobile Developments + Mapping & Their
Potential Use for Global Development
(In Pursuit of “Mapped Mobile Citizen Intelligence”)
Jason Liszkiewicz
April 2009-March 2010
EIN
earthintelnet [at] gmail.com
www.phibetaiota.net
www.earth-intelligence.net
Mobile + Mapping Crisis
Growing/expanding in use and
notoriety
http://www.ushahidi.com
http://twitter.com/Ushahid
i
4 min video
and
http://tr.im/jr5F
http://www.netsquared.or
g/projects/ushahidi-v2global-crisis-tool
Mobile + Mapping Crisis
Congo
http://drc.ushahidi.com
Mobile + Mapping Crisis
Kenya
http://legacy.ushahidi.com
Mobile + Mapping Crisis
South Africa
http://www.unitedforafrica
.co.za
Mobile + Mapping Crisis
Gaza
http://labs.aljazeera.net/w
arongaza
Mobile + Mapping Crisis
Zimbabwe
http://www.sokwanele.co
m/map/electionviolence
Mobile + Election Monitoring
India: citizen-driven election
monitoring thru SMS, email and
Web-based reports on voting
irregularities
http://votereport.in
Mobile + Election Monitoring
Ghana: sms & vote monitoring
http://mobileactive.org/s
ms-critical-electionobservation-ghana
Mapping Emergency Alerts
Global and regional alert maps
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertm
ap/index2.php
&
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertm
ap/index.php?lang=eng
(regions)
Mexico voting
Lebanon elections
http://mobileactive.org/mexicansreport-votes-and-nonvotes-sms
Citizen SMS reporting on Lebanon
elections
http://is.gd/RELR
Big Picture
Aside from mobile, imagine
http://everyblock.com
with
http://benfry.com/zipdeco
de/ with the public display of
Danoo (URL no longer available)
and dome media
http://geodome.info
$20 hardware
$20 mobile chip platform
http://www.i4u.com/articl
e3851.html
3-D Cities
3-D city models
http://www.fugroearthdat
a.com/servicessubcat.php
?subcat=3D-city-models
3-D/disasters/mapping
Video from Technology Review on
mapping disasters in 3-D
http://link.brightcove.com
/services/player/bcpid263
777539?bctid=180227200
01
&
http://www.technologyrevi
ew.com/blog/editors/2325
7/
911 SMS
Waterloo, Iowa 911 dispatch
http://tr.im/wqKs
accepting txt msging, first in the
country
Afghanistan Airwaves
http://tr.im/wyfE
Afghanistan/event
Mobile Phones and
Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/06/event-24-jun2010-wash-dc-can-youhelp-me-now-mobilephones-andpeacebuilding-inafghanistan-alsowebcasted/
AFL-CIO/Pandemic
Many Health Care Facilities Not
http://www.docuticker.co
Prepared to Protect Healthcare
Workers in Event of Pandemic Flu
Outbreak
m/?p=25660
Africa mobile news
Dedicated to mobile news from
Africa
http://www.mobileafrica.n
et
Africa/crop disease
Treating crop disease in east Africa
via mobile phone
http://www.theeastafrican
.co.ke/news//2558/561696/-/rigs6uz//
Africa/documentary trailer
“Hello Africa” trailer for
documentary on African mobile
developments
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=KAqsFqY-kGQ
Africa/radio
How Freedom Fone Helped
Create Participatory Radio in
Africa
http://www.pbs.org/ideala
b/2010/08/how-freedomfone-helped-createparticipatory-radio-inafrica215.html
Africa/solar powered tower
Solar powered cell phone tower
http://ecoworldly.com/200
8/05/26/africa-cell-phoneproviders-ingenuity-turnsto-wind-and-solar/
Agriculture/India
How Mobile Phones Are
http://www.theatlantic.co
Transforming Indian Agriculture m/technology/archive/201
0/08/how-mobile-phonesare-transforming-indianagriculture/61394/
Augmented reality/3-D search
Hyper-linking reality. augmented
reality, 3-D search
http://www.technologyrevi
ew.com/blog/editors/2219
8/
&
http://www.technologyrevi
ew.com/BizTech/17807/pa
ge2/
&
http://www.geovector.com
/press/3Dsearch.html
&
http://www.geovector.com
/press/netdimensions.html
http://www.textually.org/t
extually/archives/2009/05
/023538.htm
Blind/deaf emergencies
Blood tester
Hacked/modified mobile device
into a portable blood tester
capable of detecting HIV, malaria
and other illnesses
http://mobileactive.org/ins
tant-lab-your-mobileanalyzing-blood-detecting-
diseases
Book
Post-March 2010
On Africa and Latin America
mobile communications
http://in3.uoc.edu/web/IN3/comm
unication-technologies-in-latinamerica-and-africa/
Cambodia/video/violence
Mobile video of police open fire at
Cambodian farmers
http://hub.witness.org/en/
node/12500
Child abduction
SMS alerts for child abduction.
The link to the right shows the
general network of how the
system works
http://wirelessamberalerts.adcoun
cil.org/howwirelessamberalertsw
ork.htm
Children/violence/Benin/Africa
Beginning stages of project
http://lindaraftree.wordpress.com/
against violence against children 2010/03/01/finding-some-ictanswers-in-benin/
Citizen Mobile Answer Service
(paid)
Humorously plays on the “KGB” http://542542.com
theme (542-542 is KGB-KGB)
City problem-reporting
Report and fix problems in your
city
http://seeclickfix.com/feed
s
City sensors/mapping
Real-time sensors for city mapping
http://senseable.mit.edu
Conflict/map
International conflict mapping
(International Conflict Research)
http://www.icr.ethz.ch/res
earch/warviews
Convergence/QR codes/2D codes
Hyper-links black and white
printed codes (QR codes) on to
paper books...enhances physical
reality (books, places, objects)
with stories, travel experiences,
ratings or information.
http://www.ubimark.com/i
n/
Crime map/Oakland
Crime map for Oakland, California
http://oakland.crimespotti
ng.org
Crime Visualization
20 data visualizations
http://flowingdata.com/2009/06/2
3/20-visualizations-tounderstand-crime/
Crisis preparation/response
http://emicus.com
Crisis-response
“Ushahidi global crisis reporting”
http://www.netsquared.or
g/projects/ushahidi-v2global-crisis-tool
Crisis-response
“Innovative support to
emergencies, disease, and
disasters”
http://news.cnet.com/830
1-19518_3-10198462238.html?part=rss&subj=
news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
&
http://instedd.org
Crowdsource/mapping
“Crowdmap” allows you to
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
collect information from cell
t/2010/08/crowdmapphones, news and the web,
beta/
aggregate that information into a
single platform, visualize it on a
map and timeline. Designed and
built by the people behind
Ushahidi, a platform that was
originally built to crowdsource
crisis information.
Currency/money/payment
Type a friend’s Twitter handle, a https://twitpay.me
dollar amount, and twitpay to
transfer funds to their PayPal
account.
Currency/money/payment
Instead of entering credit card
http://zong.com
information anew for every
online purchase, users fill in their
phone number and the charge
shows up on their monthly bill.
Currency/money/payment
The latest from Twitter
cofounder Jack Dorsey, this 3/4
inch cube turns any iPhone into a
credit card reader.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/0
8/03/square-iphone-paymentsystem-turns-your-phone-intocredit-card-r/
Currency/money/payment
This mobile app uses PayPal to
enable charities to accept small
donations without the usual
exorbitant credit card
transactions fees.
http://www.getgiving.co.uk
Currency/money/payment
Travelers can avoid the hassle
http://www.hubculture.com/group
and fees of swapping dollars for s/237/projects/427/wiki/
euros by transacting in vritual
currency in this international
network of workstations.
Currency/money/payment
Smartphone Money
(AT&T,Verizon) & Global
Currency (IMF) Weak Signals
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/08/smartphonemoney-attverizon-globalcurrency-imf-weaksignals/
http://flowingdata.com
Data Visualization
Data visualization
175 data viz examples
http://www.meryl.net/200
8/01/175-data-andinformation-visualizationexamples-and-resources/
Data Visualization/Animation
Animated data visualization
http://www.jonathancousi
ns.com/information_recast
/
Data visualization/product-tracking Product-tracking
http://www.nd.edu/~netw
orks/productspace/index.h
tm
Digital Earth
International Symposium on
Digital Earth
http://www.isde5.org/abo
ut_digitalearth.htm
Disease detection/Twitter
From DIYCIty.org, “Realtime
disease detection for your city
from messages on Twitter (and
soon Facebook)”
http://sickcity.org
Dome media
Domes for displaying vivid media
http://geodome.info
Education/learning
It's not a question of if, but when http://theinnovativeeducat
your school will allow cell
or.blogspot.com/2010/06/i
phones for learning
ts-not-question-of-if-butwhen-your.html
Elections/Kenya
Twitter & SMS Used to Help
Election in Kenya
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/08/twitter-smsused-to-help-election-inkenya/
Emergency Alert Backup
However, Motorola is featured in
this article, the same company
who supplied pre and post Sept.
11 radios to the NYPD & Fire
Dept's
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.
com/single.php?id=8102
Guiliani & Motorola
http://tr.im/oKHw
Video on radios
http://tr.im/oKHI
http://free-gisdata.blogspot.com
Free GIS
Geo-data
Mobile geo-data sets
http://shop.delorme.com/
OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctD
spRte.jsp?section=10058
http://geospatialrevolution
.psu.edu
Geospatial Revolution Project
Video from Penn State
Global Aid
Technology for Transparency:
Five Lessons Learned
http://globalvoicesonline.o
rg/2010/08/25/technology
-for-transparency-fivelessons-learned/
Global incidents
“Worldwide Incidents Tracking
System”
http://wits.nctc.gov
Global Task Assigning
People remotely getting paid for
small translation tasks
http://txteagle.com
Google Earth + iPhone
Google Earth for the iPhone
http://www.wired.com/ga
dgetlab/2008/10/googleearth-co/
Group Communications
GeoChat released for "disasterready group communications"
http://is.gd/Fhr7
Harware w/$15-$20 pricetag
$15-20 Tracfones
http://www.tracfone.com/
phones.jsp?task=phones&
subTask=allPhones
Health
Rockefeller Foundation, United
Nations Foundation and Vodafone
Foundation to form the Mobile
Health Alliance (mHealth)
http://www.nextbillion.net
/blog/2009/03/16/mhealth
-for-development
&
http://www.unfoundation.
org/globalissues/technology/mhealth
-alliance.html
Health/Medical
Authentication service relies on a
simple SMS-based technology, is
one of a number of players in the
mobile health field focusing on
drug counterfeiting.
http://mobileactive.org/no
-fake-drugs-battlingpharma-counterfeitingsms-and-mobile-tech
Health/Medical
Project Masiluleke is a South
African project that aims to find
solutions for the country’s
growing AIDS pandemic. The
project is unique in that it enjoys
the collaboration of a group of
leading South African and
international partners in the
clinical, technical, philanthropic,
development and design arena’s.
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/08/projectmasiluleke-the-mobilephone-as-life-savingdevice-against-hivaids-insouth-africa/
India/Idea-sending
Corporate mobile democracy in
India?
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=FGM4ywFEcZg
india/Mapping/SMS/Elections
Vote reporting on India election
discrepancies and incidents
http://votereport.in
&
http://swiftapp.org
&
http://blog.twittervoterep
ort.com
India/SMS/Mapping/traffic
SMS traffic reporting and mapping
http://www.btis.in because of
this
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
Indian Hardware
$20 mobile phone
http://www.cellphonebeat.
com/entry/spice-mobile-
unveils-20-people-s-phone
Indonesia/Gov/SMS
SMS to complain about
government officials
http://www.textually.org/t
extually/archives/2005/06
/008668.htm
Indonesia/SMS/Disease
(2005) Indonesia launching hotline
to monitor disease via SMS
http://www.textually.org/t
extually/archives/2005/08
/009653.htm
International development
Top 15 project winners of USAID
contest
http://www.netsquared.or
g/usaid/top15
Iran/sms election-data
“The
Iranian Election
Iran's coming election & the role of
sms/mobile text messaging
http://www.textually.org/textually
/archives/2009/05/023695.htm
Kenya/mapping
Geospatial Week--“Mapping our
Future 2009-2014: Collective
Action and Advocacy to Improve
Spatial Solutions for Sustainable
Development”
http://tr.im/REdm
Kenya/SMS/election violence
SMS as Information Channel in
Post-Election Kenyan violence
http://new.mobileactive.or
g/sms-informationchannel-post-electionkenya
Kenya/video
Kenya's mobile revolution
documentary
Part 1
university’s campaign team http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06
has developed its own software /11/world/middleeast/11iran.html
for doing election polls, and has ?_r=1
given 1,000 phones equipped
with it to campaign workers who
fan out across the country to do
face-to-face questionnaires. They
type the answers directly into the
phones, and then transmit them
back to the Tehran headquarters
by text message..”
&
http://agcommons.com/?q
=node/83
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xQTS8Hel1vk
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=BRjpHUnxaq8
Largest mobile event
Largest exhibition for the mobile
industry
Librarian-based service
London Noise Map
http://www.mobileworldco
ngress.com/overview.shtm
l
http://www.phibetaiota.net/?p=78
05
London road traffic noise map
http://www.londonnoisem
ap.com
Mali/USAID
“Promoting stability and prosperity
in the developing world through
information and communications
technology”
http://mali.geekcorps.org
Malnutrition surveillance
“Child Malnutrition Surveillance
and Famine Response”
http://www.netsquared.or
g/projects/childmalnutrition-surveillanceand-famine-response
Map/city growth
Map on city growth (Chicago)
http://www.mapsinthepubl
icsquare.org
Map/Disease
Global disease alert map
http://healthmap.org/en
Map/hate groups
Hate group map for America
http://www.splcenter.org/i
ntel/map/hate.jsp
Map/healthcare/NYC
part of the Centers for Disease
Control's REACH 2010 Program
http://www.healthcarethat
works.org/maps/nyc/
Map/Surveillance/Privacy
2007 International Privacy
Ranking, map of surveillance
societies around the world
http://www.privacyinterna
tional.org/article.shtml?cm
d[347]=x-347-559597
Mapping
Proliferation/non-proliferation
maps
http://www.carnegieendo
wment.org/static/npp/dea
dlymaps.cfm
Mapping
The MapTogether project
http://maptogether.org
provides free map-related
training and tools for community
and nonprofit groups around the
world. Our resources include
software, data sets, online
mapping services,
documentation, and training
resources. In addition, our
geographers provide free inperson "community mapping
clinics" in cities across the
United States and Canada.
Mapping
“open supply chains”
http://sourcemap.org
Mapping British Data
Various mapping based in Britain
http://www.maptube.org
Mapping medicine “stockouts”
Mapping medicine temporarily
not available on shelves
http://stopstockouts.org
Mapping/Civic Engagement
Technology for Transparency
Network
http://transparency.globalvoiceso
nline.org
Mapping/genocide-prevention
Genocide Prevention Mapping
http://www.ushmm.org/m
Initiative
aps
Mapping/roadway fatalities
Mapping of roadway fatalities
across America
http://www.saferoadmaps.
org
Maps/Science
“Better maps, better decisions”
http://mapofscience.com
Medical/Health
“Frontline SMS Medic”
http://www.textually.org/t
extually/archives/2009/03
/023151.htm
Microscope/Medical
“CellScope: Telemicroscopy for
Disease Diagnosis”
http://www.intelchallenge.
com/cellscope
&
http://fletchlab.berkeley.e
du/research_cellscope.htm
Mobile payment
http://mpesa.com
Mobile pollution sensors
Cyclists, buses, cars and even
pedestrians will become mobile
pollution detectors in an
initiative launched in Britain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scienc
e/nature/8126498.stm
&
N. Korea oppression
Various links on the oppressive
North Korean gov in relation to
mobile phone use
http://www.textually.org/textually
/archives/2008/02/019113.htm
Nature.com/Mobile potential
“..mobile phones are starting to be
used to collect data in an
increasing number of disciplines.
Roberta Kwok looks into their
potential.”
http://www.nature.com/ne
ws/2009/090419/full/4589
59a.html
Network
Open Mobile Consortium: “we work
on open source mobile applications
for social change”
http://www.open-mobile.org
Nigeria/Android/rapid response
new tool now being tested in
Nigeria by UNICEF for the
distribution of bed nets.
http://mobileactive.org/ra
pid-android-turningandroid-phone-datacollection-and-supplymanagement-server
&
http://rapidandroid.org
http://openlearn.open.ac.
uk/course/category.php?id
=6
Open Learning/RSS
Example of course available
through RSS feeds. Connect this
into a RSS-to-SMS program for
mobile learning potential
Open Source
Project dedicated to delivering
http://wiki.openmoko.org/
mobile phones with an open
wiki/Main_Page
source software stack.
Openmoko is currently selling
the Neo FreeRunner phone to
advanced users and will start
selling it to the general public as
soon as the software is more
developed.
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/09/mobile-techsms-platforms-for-crediteducation-legal-andmedical/
Open Source
SMS Platforms for Credit,
Education, Legal, and Medical
Open Source/Burning Man
Burning man open source phone http://www.phibetaiota.ne
system:
t/?p=26338
&
http://www.networkworld.
com/news/2010/083010open-source-voip-cellphones-at-burningman.html?hpg1=bn
Pakistan/converging media
Extensive writing on old & new
media converging in Pakistan
emergencies
http://civic.mit.edu/watchl
istenlearn/old-and-newmedia-converging-duringthe-pakistan-emergencymarch-2007-february2008
&
http://civic.mit.edu/watchl
istenlearn/old-and-newmedia-converging-duringthe-pakistan-emergencymarch-2007-february2008?page=0,2 (SMS section)
Pandemic/GPS
http://www.textually.org/textually
/archives/2009/06/023770.htm
Photography synthesis
Piece together photography to
form a realistic-like navigatable
environment
http://photosynth.net/Def
ault.aspx
Poverty/mapping
Spatial representations of poverty
assessments
http://www.povertymap.n
et
Public SMS
Cool and entertaining projection of
speech bubbles where people can
sms and it will appear inside the
projected speech bubble (projected
on to a large wall outside at night
to get the public involved).
Http://txtualhealing.com
Radio + Mobile connection
Rural radio, sms, mp3's,
agriculture and health info
http://tr.im/y2wc
Rapid response
Strong Angel III “Integrated rapid
response demonstration”
http://strongangel3.com
Rapid response/mapping/Tennesse Rapid response mapping in
Tennessee (tornado)
http://www.fugroearthdat
a.com/features.php?id=10
02
Rapid response/Video
Video of Strong Angel III
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=1ikEPzLHPdM&N
R=1
RSS/mapping
RSS feeds mapped
http://www.mappedup.co
m
Security/malware/mapping
“App Genome Project”
http://blog.mylookout.com
Ongoing effort to map and study /2010/07/introducing-themobile applications, the App
app-genome-project/
Genome Project was created to
identify security threats in the
wild and provide insight into
how applications are accessing
personal data, as well as other
phone resources
Sensors
“smell phone” to detect chemical http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/1
hazards...who else, department
1/cell-phones-sniff-out-toxicof homeland security
fumes.aspx?s=techprod_170310
collaborating with corporations.
Severe weather sms alert
Weather alerts (severe weather)
via txt message
http://is.gd/M1BO
Sexual Harassment/Egypt
HarassMap: Tracking Sexual
Harassment in Egypt with SMS
http://mobileactive.org/harassmap
-plan-track-sexual-harassmentegypt
Singapore/SMS/crime alerts
SMS crime alerts from Singapore
police
http://www.spf.gov.sg/cri
meprevention/crimesms_i
ndex.htm
SMS + Tee Shirts
*note: EIN Director conceived of
this in 2008 and with plans to
implement this with
http://reactee.com
http://multeepurpose.com
SMS info directory
http://www.textmarks.com/dir/
SMS 411 type service as a model
since this does not work (I tested
it)
http://www.411sms.com
SMS/Africa activism
Book - SMS Uprising: Mobile
Activism in Africa
http://www.phibetaiota.net/?p=23
287
SMS/Answer Service
Answers to anything, on the go,
for free (pay after certain amount
of SMS's)
http://www.chacha.com
SMS/Collective participation
Collective navigation via SMS
http://marumushi.com/pr
SMS/411/answer service
&
http://www.411sms.com/t
ranslations
ojects/adobeideas2006
SMS/court cases/Dubai
SMS service now available for
Dubai court cases
http://www.itp.net/news/5
52508-sms-updates-nowavailable-for-dubai-courtcases&
http://www.dxbpp.gov.ae/
en/Index-E.asp
SMS/crime-fighting
Using SMS to fight crime
http://mobileactive.org/s
ms_crime
SMS/farmers/India
Indian farmers adopt SMS to find
out rubber prices
http://www.hindu.com/the
hindu/holnus/0152009041
71712.htm
SMS/fumes/crime tips
Documentation from England,
Thailand, and Malaysia on the use
of text messaging for reporting
excessive fume emissions and
crime tips
http://www.textually.org/t
extually/archives/cat_citiz
ens_as_informants.htm
SMS/healthy toys
SMS to get ratings on toys that are
not toxic
http://www.healthytoys.org/press.
texting.php
SMS/homelessness
Street art: a projector simulates a http://sarkissianmason.com/path
homeless person sleeping
waysvid/ (requires Flash)
outside...a 5 digit number is also
projected, when someone sends a
txt message to it, the sleeping
person enters a doorway, into a
home.
SMS/NYC Transit
NYC Metro Transit SMS service
http://mymtaalerts.com/(
S(t22oirujs0j1w4550c41u
1ai))/LoginC.aspx
SMS/Pollution advisories
text messaging service to inform
people when a High Pollution
Advisory (HPA) is being issued for
the Greater Phoenix Area.
http://www.azdeq.gov/sm
s.html
SMS/problem-driving
Bad driving reports via SMS
http://www.textually.org/t
extually/archives/2006/06
/012814.htm
SMS/Products/Bar code
Bar code SMS service
http://camclic.com
SMS/sex info
Sex info for young people
http://www.sextextsf.org
SMS/video projection
SMS & video projection for public
display
http://www.txtualhealing.c
om
Solar powered phone
Solar powered phone (2nd link is of
http://www.inhabitat.com/
&
http://www.physorg.com/
news160207575.html
solar powered phone that is water
proof)
2009/02/13/samsungreleases-solar-poweredphone/
&
http://tr.im/k0YI
Telecommunications/Internet/Map
Telecommunications and internet
map
http://senseable.mit.edu/
nyte
Terrorists
Potential uses of mobile phones by
terrorists
http://www.fas.org/irp/epr
int/mobile.pdf
Toxins/NYC
http://www.toxicstargeting.com
Traffic monitoring
Mobile Millennium Traffic Pilot
http://traffic.berkeley.edu
Ultrasound Imaging
Smartphone-compatible USB
ultrasound probes for imaging the
kidney, liver, bladder and eyes
(and more)
http://tr.im/joyw
UN/Vodafone/Social Change
United Nations Foundation &
Vodafone “Mobilizing Social
Change”
http://mobileactive.org/fil
es/MobilizingSocialChange
_full.pdf
http://unicefinnovation.or
g
UNICEF/RapidSMS
video-map
Witness.org map of videos
captured around the world
http://hub.witness.org/en/
map
Video/“Participatory Sensing”
“Participatory sensing” and mobile
phones
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=t-ItfpA3XiY
Video/crisis-response
Larry Brilliant's presentation that
led to the start of the “Innovative
support to emergencies, disease,
and disasters” (INSTEDD)
http://www.ted.com/index
.php/talks/larry_brilliant_
wants_to_stop_pandemics
.html
Video/Data collection
Nokia data gathering
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=V3rrbhf87yI
Video/Health Data
Datadyne mobile health data
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RoiGzgnMUAo
&
http://www.datadyne.org
Video/problem-solving/3-D/grid
computing
Video/SMS/Mapping
Video at Google.org of David Brin
& Sheldon Brown animation
(scalable
city)
Video on Ushahidi's text messaging
and mapping for Kenya
http://tr.im/k4Qw
&
http://www.worldcommuni
tygrid.org
http://www.ted.com/index
.php/talks/erik_hersman_
on_reporting_crisis_via_te
xting.html
Wars/animated mapping
Animated mapping of American
wars
http://www.mapsofwar.co
m/ind/american-wars.html
World data maps
Many world data maps
http://maps.howstuffwork
s.com
World data maps
Various world data maps
http://worldprocessor.com
/catalog/world/
Zimbabwe/Mapping/Terror &
Violence/Elections
Mapping Terror in Zimbabwe:
Political Violence & Elections 2008
http://www.sokwanele.co
m/map/electionviolence
Zimbabwe/SMS/censorship
Zimbabwe phone censorship in the
name of national security
http://www.textually.org/t
extblog/mt_search.php?In
cludeBlogs=1&search=zim
babwe
Zip codes/Mapping
Zip code map. Click map, type zip
code, and the map zooms in
http://benfry.com/zipdeco
de
Mapping/Mobile/Burma
Crowdmap.com reports from
Burma
http://www.handheldhumanrights
.org